"LIBAHUNT!" Alexei
breaks the terms of the wolf-magic he inherited from his grandfather and loses
the ability to control the shapeshifting. His grandfather's magical wolf-pelt
was meant to protect their rural village in 1880s Estonia by fighting the
terrible storms in the sky but instead, it drives Alexei to kill, slaughtering
his neighbors, his friends —even his family.

Heartbroken, Alexei flees his
home in search of an enchanter to free him from this hideous curse. Wandering through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, and Bohemia, he encounters the Master of Wolves, who forces Alexei to
terrorize and murder the local farmers, and the infamous Frau Bertha who traps
all those who anger her by turning them into wolves. Will Alexei find a
sorcerer who can free him?

With degrees in medieval history
and theology from Yale and St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Academy, Stephen
Morris brings his extensive knowledge and meticulous research in medieval
magical practices to his historical and contemporary fantasy novels. In each of
his novels, the magical and fantastic elements are all drawn from authentic
occult beliefs and practices from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance or from
local legends and folklore.

“I first became interested in the occult and
magic when I was very VERY young and saw The Wizard of Oz on television for the
first and second times. The first time, my mom says I was terrified of the
Wicked Witch’s appearance in Munchkin Land amidst smoke and flames and ran
straight to bed! (I must have been 5 years old or so.) The next year I began
watching the movie again and made myself stick with it past the appearance of
the Witch and after that — I was hooked!

“The Wicked Witch of the West
became my favorite character because not only is she the most interesting but
she is the only one who wields any real power in the movie. She became my idol
for years and years! (When a major storm recently struck Manhattan, I made a
comment on FB about the wind picking up our house and depositing it atop
someone wearing peppermint stripped stockings and glittering red shoes and my
cousin responded: ‘You’ve been chasing those shoes for YEARS!’ LoL!)”

A former priest, he served as the
Eastern Orthodox chaplain at Columbia University. His previous academic writing
has dealt primarily with Late Antiquity and Byzantine church life. As a Project
Leader with Inter-Disciplinary.net, he also organizes annual conferences on
aspects of the supernatural, monsters, evil and wickedness, fairy tales and
folk tales, and related subjects.

Stephen, a Seattle native, is now
a long-time New York resident and currently lives in Manhattan with his
partner, Elliot.